The Sound, The Ground, The Flowers

Two landscapes exist within a cemetery, one place superimposed on top of another. The first, a necessary death landscape situated beneath the feet serves to hold the unnamed yet vital feature of these sites—the body—as the deceased continue the process of their return underground. The second is a landscape of grief and mourning, a plastic Eden superimposed on top of the ground, strewn with flowers slowly yielding to the power of the wind and sun but constantly blooming. This secondary landscape is one of vernacular remembrance that both embraces and masks the landscape underneath. These sites exist as a layering of place and purpose that allows these spaces to become unbound from time. Existing as sites where the living can kiss and hold their familiar ghosts, thus producing a meeting of function and affect within the landscape. Sites of simultaneous resistance and acceptance.